Windows 8: If you enjoy playing games using the Steam platform you may want to consider using Pin Steam, a Windows 8 commercial application that allows you to pin individual games to your start screen. This saves a bit of time but the main appeal is a slick interface with your favorite game graphics.

Another benefit of the app for heavy Steam users is that you can customize the small and large tile for each game, and they look really nice.

Whether those few saved seconds gained by pinning Steam games and nice implementation of game images into tiles is worth a $1.49 app is up to you. I only occasionally use Steam so I'm not in the target market for this app but if making your workstation pretty is important to you I'm sure it'll be worth the buck-fitty.